Aberdeen City Council recently sent out correspondence to council tax payers in the city, which included the usual information about rates and what the council spends council tax receipts on. The Council also sent out letters in the same envelope (thus incurring no extra postage costs), setting out a position on the Scottish independence referendum....

Claims that Aberdeen City Council's administration broke the rules by including a pro-Better Together letter to council tax payers have been thrown out by an independent watchdog. Bills sent to every council tax payer in Aberdeen last month included a letter from the Labour-led authority's leader, Barney Crockett.